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Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
Poet, essayist, and cultural critic Adrienne Rich is among the most widely admired and thought
provoking writers in the
United States. She received the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1951, at the age of twenty-one,
and has since authored sixteen
volumes of poetry, including Diving into the Wreck (1972), for which she received the
National Book Award. Her essays
and poems are taught across the country in most English programs and Women's Studies courses.
She is the recipient of nearly
every major literary award including the 1999 Lannan Foundation Lifetime Achievement award, an
Academy of American Poets
Fellowship, and the MacArthur "genius" grant.
PoemTalk Podcast #2, discussing Rich's poem "Wait," January 3, 2008
Listen to the complete recording and read program notes for the episode at Jacket2 .
April 18-19, 2005, Discussion and Reading as a KWH Fellow
Introductions
Introduction by Al Filreis (5:58): MP3
Introduction by Alicia Oltuski (4:41): MP3
Opening RemarksMP3
Discussion and Readings
Listen to the whole discussion, moderated by Al Filreis MP3 .
Discussion of Wait MP3
Trying to talk of the man and American nationalism MP3
On then and now in poetry MP3
Rich's creative process MP3
Teaching Poetry to those who fear it MP3
Books that have influenced Rich MP3
Happiness as the opposite of guilt MP3
On the sacred MP3
On June Jordan MP3
Rich reads from a poem written for June Jordan MP3
Judaism in Rich's poetry MP3
Sexual desire in poetry MP3
How imagination leads us to surpass ourselves MP3
Rich reads from an essay on the survival of poetry MP3
Rich reads from the end of Then or Now MP3
From Midnight Salvage (1999)
Introduction to Letters to a Young Poet (0:26): MP3
Letters to a Young Poet (4:27): MP3
Introduction to The Art of Translation (0:41)MP3
The Art of Translation (2:36)MP3
From Dark Fields of the Republic (1995)
Introduction to What Kind of Times Are These? (0:29)MP3
What Kind of Times Are These? (1:17)MP3
Introduction to From Pierced Darkness, New York, December (0:10)MP3
From Pierced Darkness, New York, December (3:52)MP3
From Fox
Introduction to Victory (1:04)MP3
Victory (3:45)
Introduction to Rauschenberg's Bed (1:23)MP3
Rauschenberg's Bed (1:44)MP3
From The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004
Introduction to Centaur's Requiem (0:33): MP3
Centaur's Requiem (0:56): MP3
Introduction to Equinox (0:06): MP3
Equinox (2:09): MP3
Introduction to Transparencies (0:16): MP3
Transparencies (2:04): MP3
Introduction to Alternating Current (0:59): MP3
Alternating Current (4:20): MP3
Introduction to Wait (0:32): MP3
Wait (0:34): MP3
New Poems
Introduction to As Ever (0:34): MP3
As Ever (0:32): MP3
[Tribute to Robert Creeley:text of poem ]
Introduction to Behind the Motel (0:51): MP3
Behind the Motel (1:19): MP3
Unknown Quanity (0:51): MP3
Introduction to Wallpaper (0:33): MP3
Wallpaper (2:22): MP3
Praise from Adrienne Rich
Adrienne
Rich comments on her afternoon with the students in the Fellows seminar just before the reading on April 18, 2005: MP3
Rich praises AL Filreis as host of the Writers House Fellows: MP3
Rich also commends Filreis for his teaching: MP3
Pennsound Podcast
Podcast #11: MP3
Reading at SUNY-Buffalo , October 18, 2000
Introduction by Robert Creeley (1:44): MP3
Poet's introductory remarks (2:27): MP3
Letters (March, 1969) (5:36): MP3
On Edges (1968) (1:50)MP3
Divisions of Labor (1988) (1:54): MP3
Marghanita (3:33): MP3
Victor (5:24): MP3
Driving Home From Robin Blaser's Reading (4 short poems) (3:04): MP3
Fox (1:33): MP3
Terza Rima (11:12): MP3
Sleepwalking Next to Death (6:26): MP3
complete reading (1:48): MP3
From a 1985 reading at Cornell University (on tape in the CU Library)
Diving
Into the Wreck (3:06): MP3 (INCOMPLETE: final section of poem
is cut off)
Excerpt from 21 Love Poems (3:15): MP3
Snapshots of a Daugther-In-Law (8:12): MP3
Also of Interest:
These sound recordings are being made available for noncommercial and
educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to
the author. © 2003 - 2005 Adrienne Rich. Used with permission of
Adrienne Rich. Distributed by PennSound.